Command & Conquer coded in HTML5
January 24, 2012 – 9:57 pm | No Comment

Remember the classic RTS known as Command & Conquer? Well, an enterprising coder, Aditya Ravi Shankar, actually recreated the strategy game using nothing but HTML5, where it runs on 69k of Javascript. Why did he set out on such an adventure? For starters, Shankar’s attempt was a self-mandated undertaking in order to improve his coding skills, where he gave himself a one month window to rebuild the game in the browser, and had to comb through the original game’s files in order to obtain all the right sprites, sounds and specs. According to Shankar, “In hindsight, I might have wanted to take smaller steps and make a tower defense game instead of jumping directly into an RTS. Trying to do the whole thing in under a month all by myself wasn’t the smartest idea.” As part of Shankar’s recreation of Command & Conquer, it included buildings, terrain, combat, tiberium harvesting and regrowth, in addition to the ability to sell and repair buildings. You want fog of war? It has that, too, in addition to a pannable map, different cursors, …

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Engadget Podcast 203 – 07.02.2010

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Robots, death, Epic Fascination, and tropicalia: genre-surfing tokenism dominates the Engadget Podcast this week.

Hosts:
Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Guest: Chris Ziegler
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Castor – Rude Boy

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00:02:58 – Motorola Droid X review
00:04:40 – Introducing review scorecards!
00:18:48 – Droid X ad pokes fun at iPhone 4 antenna troubles
00:26:15 – Samsung’s American Galaxy S phones pose for family portrait
00:26:48 – Samsung Vibrant is official on T-Mobile, coming July 21 for $200
00:26:53 – Verizon ropes in Samsung Fascinate, US Cellular gets a Galaxy S too
00:26:55 – Samsung T-Mobile Vibrant and Verizon Fascinate preview
00:27:00 – Samsung’s Epic 4G for Sprint seems to live up to its name
00:30:10 – Samsung Epic 4G preview
00:42:41 – Microsoft says Kin software update is scheduled for mid-summer
00:42:45 – Kin One drops to $29, Two drops to $49, data plans remain silly expensive
00:42:50 – Microsoft Kin is dead
00:42:55 – T-Mobile kills off current Sidekicks, Kin says ‘welcome to the club’
00:47:00 – What killed the Kin?
01:11:05 – Hulu Plus announced with support for iPad, iPhone, PS3, Xbox Live, and more (update)
01:15:15 – Hands-on with Hulu Plus via Samsung HDTV, iPhone and iPad
01:15:45 – Hulu Plus preview arrives in iTunes App Store, Flash be damned
01:16:00 – Hulu CEO: we’re ‘complementary’ to cable
01:16:23 – HP / Palm buyout officially complete — get ready for webOS printers
01:19:35 – MeeGo for handsets makes its first appearance

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